- Was offered the job of directing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).
- Lost hours of footage for 'Monsoon Wedding' when the negative was shipped to New York and x-rayed.
- Teaching in Columbia University's film department (October 2002)
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990
- Dedicated her film The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) to memory of her father Amrit Nair (1924-2012).
- Was inspired to become a filmmaker after seeing Doctor Zhivago (1965) countless times as a young girl in India.
- Her brother, Vicky Nair, is based in Delhi and is opening a street food restaurant in Gurgaon.
- Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2002
- First read William Makepeace Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair' when she was 16. She would later adapt it into a film.
- Mother, with husband Mahmood Mamdani, of son Zohran Kwame Mamdani (b. October 18, 1991).
- Aunt of Ishaan Nair
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